ii, 7.

Dr.Beattie, however, says: "Colours inhere not in the coloured body, but in the light that falls upon it; * * * and the word _colour_ denotes, an external thing, and never a sensation of the mind."-- _Moral Science_, i, 54.

Here is some difference of opinion; but however the thing may be, it does not affect my argument; which is, that to perceive or think is an act or attribute of our immaterial substance or nature, and not to be supposed the effect either of the objects perceived or of our own corporeal organization.
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Divine wisdom has established the senses as the avenues through which our minds shall receive notices of the forms and qualities of external things; but the sublime conception of the ancients, that these forms and qualities had an abstract preexistence in the divine mind, is a common doctrine of many English authors, as Milton, Cowper, Akenside, and others.
For example: "Now if _Ens primum_ be the cause of _entia a primo_, then he hath the idea of them in him: for he made them by counsel, and not by necessity; for then he should have needed them, and they have a parhelion of that wisdom that is in his Idea."-- _Richardson's Logic_, p.

16: Lond.
1657.
"Then the Great Spirit, whom his works adore, Within his own deep essence view'd the forms, The forms eternal of created things."-- AKENSIDE.
_Pleasures of the Imagination_, Book i.
"And in the school of sacred wisdom taught, To read his wonders, in whose thought the world, Fair as it is, existed ere it was."-- COWPER.
_Task: Winter Morning Walk_, p.